Mingzhong Wu
Professor, Physics
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Focus
Topological quantum materials, magnetic thin films, spin transport, spin torque, spin waves, and ferromagnetic resonance
Education
- PhD, Solid State Electronics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 1999
Honors & Awards
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Fellow, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Professor Laureate, CNS, Colorado State University (2019, 2020, 2021)
Research Overview
Topological quantum materials, magnetic thin films, spin transport, spin torque, spin waves, and ferromagnetic resonance
Professor Wu’s group is interested in many topics in magnetics and quantum materials. The current research areas include topological quantum materials, magnetic thin films, spin transport, spin torque, spin waves, and ferromagnetic resonance.
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- Yuejie Zhang, Vijaysankar Kalappattil, Chuanpu Liu, M. Mehraeen, Steven S.-L. Zhang, Jinjun Ding, Uppalaiah Erugu, Zhijie Chen, Jifa Tian, Kai Liu, Jinke Tang, and Mingzhong Wu, “Large magneto-electric resistance in the topological Dirac semimetal α-Sn,” Science Advances 8, eabo0052 (2022).
- Jinjun Ding, Chuanpu Liu, Vijaysankar Kalappattil, Yuejie Zhang, Oleksandr Mosendz, Uppalaiah Erugu, Rui Yu, Jifa Tian, August DeMann, Stuart B. Field, Xiaofei Yang, Haifeng Ding, Jinke Tang, Bruce Terris, Albert Fert, Hua Chen, and Mingzhong Wu, “Switching of a magnet by spin-orbit torque from a topological Dirac semimetal,” Advanced Materials 33, 2005909 (2021).
- Peng Li, Jinjun Ding, Steve S.-L. Zhang, James Kally, Timothy Pillsbury, Olle G. Heinonen, Gaurab Rimal, Chong Bi, August DeMann, Stuart B. Field, Weigang Wang, Jinke Tang, Jidong Samuel Jiang, Axel Hoffmann, Nitin Samarth, and Mingzhong Wu, “Topological Hall effects in a topological insulator interfaced with a magnetic insulator,” Nano Letters 21, 84 (2020).
- Tao Liu, James Kally, Timothy Pillsbury, Chuanpu Liu, Houchen Chang, Jinjun Ding, Yang Chen, Maria Hilse, Roman Engel-Herbert, Anthony Richardella, Nitin Samarth, and Mingzhong Wu, “Changes of magnetism in a magnetic insulator due to proximity to a topological insulator,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 017204 (2020).
- Hanchen Wang, Jilei Chen, Tao Liu, Jianyu Zhang, Korbinian Baumgaertl, Chenyang Guo, Yuehui Li, Chuanpu Liu, Ping Che, Sa Tu, Song Liu, Peng Gao, Xiufeng Han, Dapeng Yu, Mingzhong Wu, Dirk Grundler, and Haiming Yu, “Chiral spin-wave velocities induced by all-garnet interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in ultrathin yttrium iron garnet films,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027203 (2020).
- Peng Li, James Kally, Steven S.-L. Zhang, Timothy Pillsbury, Jinjun Ding, Gyorgy Csaba, Junjia Ding, Sam Jiang, Yunzhi Liu, Robert Sinclair, Chong Bi, August DeMann, Gaurab Rimal, Wei Zhang, Stuart B. Field, Jinke Tang, Weigang Wang, Olle G. Heinonen, Valentine Novosad, Axel Hoffmann, Nitin Samarth, and Mingzhong Wu, “Magnetization switching utilizing topological surface states,” Sci. Adv. 5, eaaw3415 (2019).
- Daniel Richardson, Boris A. Kalinikos, Lincoln D. Carr, and Mingzhong Wu, “Spontaneous exact spin-wave fractals in magnonic crystals,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 107204 (2018).
- Tao Liu, Yufan Li, Lei Gu, Junjia Ding, Houchen Chang, P. A. Praveen Janantha, Boris Kalinikos, Valentyn Novosad, Axel Hoffmann, Ruqian Wu, C. L. Chien, and Mingzhong Wu, “Nontrivial nature and penetration depth of topological surface states in SmB6 thin films” Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207206 (2018).
- Jilei Chen, Chuanpu Liu, Tao Liu, Yang Xiao, Ke Xia, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Mingzhong Wu, and Haiming Yu, “Strong interlayer magnon-magnon coupling in magnetic metal-insulator hybrid nanostructures,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 217202 (2018).
- Chuanpu Liu, Jilei Chen, Tao Liu, Florian Heimbach, Haiming Yu, Yang Xiao, Junfeng Hu, Mengchao Liu, Houchen Chang, Tobias Stueckler, Sa Tu, Youguang Zhang, Yan Zhang, Peng Gao, Zhimin Liao, Dapeng Yu, Ke Xia, Na Lei, Weisheng Zhao, and Mingzhong Wu, “Long-distance propagation of short-wavelength spin waves,” Nature Communications 9, 738 (2018); doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03199-8
Aug 18, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Mingzhong Wu
Mingzhong Wu joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2023 as a Professor with a joint appointment in Physics.